Exactly. This is why I thought the article's attempt to dig up some kind of dirt in the woman's past really was an attempt to reassure the writer and his readership that "of course, we would never do anything like that; she must be weird."
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>
> But then one must also recognize that few people, Americans
>
> or not, educated or not, hold out very long or forcefully
> against the attitudes that prevail in their daily
> surroundings.
> Put somebody, anybody, in a position where the path of
> least
> resistance is to be a brute, and the odds are very good
> that
> a brute he or she will be. Examples abound; this is no
> longer
> news.
>
> Gloating about the depraved-and-deprived Lynndie England
> is a particularly loathesome form of liberal
> self-congratulation.
>